Monday, February 29, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, will
participate in three sessions during the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition in
Las Vegas, NV from February 29, 2016 – March 4, 2016. The sessions will
demonstrate how technology has helped Dignity Health reduce costs,
improve patient experience and outcomes, and increase access to care.

“At Dignity Health, we are committed to developing partnerships and
opportunities that harness the tremendous potential of technology, from
improving the patient experience to providing caregivers with tools that
will support their day-to-day care decisions,” said Lloyd Dean,
president and CEO of Dignity Health. “During HIMSS, we will highlight
how we blend innovation with the real world experience of our caregivers
to enact positive change, such as increased efficacy and improved
quality of care.”

One of the presentations will feature Dignity Health’s partnership with
SAS, the leader in analytics, and how Dignity Health’s pilot sepsis
bio-surveillance program helped reduce sepsis mortality at 16
facilities. With the use of analytics, Dignity Health enabled health
care providers to proactively manage potential risks, resulting in
reduced mortality, shorter length of stay in the intensive care unit and
an overall reduction in costs. On average, 69,000 lives a month were
monitored during the initial rollout of the program, which yielded in
the following:

Average mortality rate for sepsis patients decreased by 7.25 percent

Average severe sepsis rate decreased by 14.9 percent

Physician response time with sepsis bundle orders was reduced by
nearly 51 percent

The full list of sessions that Dignity Health will participate in
include:

Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, is a
21-state network of nearly 9,000 physicians, 59,000 employees, and more
than 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational
care, imaging centers, home health, and primary care clinics.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing
compassionate, high-quality and affordable patient-centered care with
special attention to the poor and underserved. In FY15, Dignity Health
provided $1.7 billion in charitable care and services. For more
information, please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org.
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